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Book Title: Libanius the Sophist : Rhetoric, Reality, and Religion in the Fourth Century

Item Length: 9in

Item Height: 0.9in

Item Width: 6in

Author: Raffaella Cribiore

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Topic: Ancient / Rome, Ancient & Classical

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Publication Year: 2013

Genre: Literary Criticism, History

Item Weight: 32.1 Oz

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

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